Heating My Home with Crypto Mining

It may be the greenest kind of heat around

Thomas Smith
The Startup
8 min readDec 16, 2019

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If you’ve ever spent time around a cryptocurrency mining computer, you know that they throw off a ton of heat.

That’s because mining crypto is an extremely power-intensive operation. According to the BBC, cryptocurrency mining worldwide uses more power than the country of Switzerland. And once a mining…

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